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[NOLUS]

3 hrs to go?

[Skyler84]

Most likely it will be 3 hours unless amazon discover more faults.

[Joannaline]

the devs should just enforce an honesty policy with people if there are accounts wiped. if they do, Let me be the first to say that I use to have 9.2 mil gold and 4200 plat with 55 pinks straight across all my 4 chars.

[ranonman]

ComputerWorld article about Amazon - read last sentence. It's not going to look good for Amazon if that happens. O.o

[arvinlennard]

Errr if this downtime continues...can the dev team switch there hosting site from a different company? Hope it will be fixed soon...bed is calling me lol XD!!!

[Osnarf]

Well, at 11 am amazon said :

"Our high-level ballpark right now is that the ETA is a few hours."

So I hope you are right, but I don't feel entirely optimistic lol.

[StompArtist]

ComputerWorld article about Amazon - read last sentence. It's not going to look good for Amazon if that happens. O.o

Funny how no one can explain what actually happened to cause this.

[tmodonchaknow]

*twiddles thumbs*
Doot Dee Doo.......
I'm breathing...
I'm okay...
But I am Gruffygummy!!...
and I am starting to twitch...

Can we get a PL soundboard to sooth our savage beasts?...
lol

;0)

Thanks for making my choice of an Android phone so totally worth it devs.
luv ya!
=0*

[Osnarf]

Or single player lol.

[ranonman]

Funny how no one can explain what actually happened to cause this.

That's true - I haven't heard an actual explanation but one of the articles claimed that there was a networking glitch which caused new backups on available storage capacity until it's maxed out and pushed all others out (server crash occured).

[Optic Apostle]

Funny how no one can explain what actually happened to cause this.

Exactly must be too embarassing mabye
But whatever it is hope amazon fixes it realy soon its been what 17 hours?

[Osnarf]

Did you not go to Amazon's page?


8:54 AM PDT We'd like to provide additional color on what were working on right now (please note that we always know more and understand issues better after we fully recover and dive deep into the post mortem). A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it's difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and working to restore the control plane issue. We're starting to see progress on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates when we have them.

[ranonman]

Ohhh, "Amazon cloud crash endangers federal websites" - Link

I smell more problems coming.

[StompArtist]

Exactly must be too embarassing mabye
But whatever it is hope amazon fixes it realy soon its been what 17 hours?

I suspect that the failure occured right after a night shift Amazon employee said "hold my beer and watch this!".

[StompArtist]

Did you not go to Amazon's page?


8:54 AM PDT We'd like to provide additional color on what were working on right now (please note that we always know more and understand issues better after we fully recover and dive deep into the post mortem). A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it's difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and working to restore the control plane issue. We're starting to see progress on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates when we have them.

That does not provide the cause it provides the effect.

[Cursed]

Funny how no one can explain what actually happened to cause this.

These sites might help


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...s-offline.html

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-n...al_Media_Sites

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

[TheClownSquad]

It says most are fix with an exception of 2, how come it still says connecting to server?

[ranonman]

I suspect that the failure occured right after a night shift Amazon employee said "hold my beer and watch this!".

That would be funny if it made to national news just like Air Control Tower employer watched a movie during the night shift.

[Orjin]

I figured I had plenty of time before my fingers were needed for button mashing, so I made some nachos and got my fingers all greasy. It was awesome.

[Osnarf]

The effect is that we cannot use the server. What I posted was the cause to the effect that we all care about. This cause is also the effect of the "network event" cause. That network event was the effect of some other cause. We can keep going back, lol. How much do you need to know? It's not working. Enough for me, lol. I'll let them figure this out and continue trying to figure out why the bottom of my car is falling off.